NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: ISPs and the "Secret Service"
On Saturday 24 November 2007 21:11, Lauren Weinstein wrote: > We can argue forever (but not on the list!) about which (if any) of > these data "management" procedures are appropriate and reasonable. > But my take is that keeping them secret is not acceptable. Customers > deserve to know exactly what they're paying for. This project hopes > to help provide them, and policymakers, with that information. Having just touched elsewhere on another list about why GUI install software is preferable for linux distros rather than the command-line stuff I'm used to Slackware giving me, it occurs to me that the majority of users probably won't care about this stuff one way or the other. Or if they did, wouldn't be sure about how to deal with interpreting whatever it was they were presented with in this context. I don't include myself in this category, or I wouldn't be on this list, but I also don't consider myself in the majority when it comes to this sort of characteristics, either. :-) -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin